About Match
The table reads 7th (St. Johnstone, 7 pts) against 1st (Celtic, 15 pts), 8 points apart. Against a league average of 1.35 goals per team per game, St. Johnstone run at 1.6 scored and 1.6 conceded, Celtic at 2.6 and 0.6. A win would lift St. Johnstone to 10 points and up to 3rd (other results unchanged).
Momentum sits with Celtic, winners of their last three, having scored in 15 consecutive games.
The head-to-head ledger counts 40 games: 3 St. Johnstone wins, 31 for Celtic, 6 draws, at 3.43 goals per meeting. The host's record in this fixture is thin — 38% of meetings won. Goals tend to flow: 68% of the meetings produced three or more.
McDiarmid Park, capacity 10,696, hosts the game.